lighting or electricity around a pipe

Hello im new to this boards,
been trying to make a nice lighing/electricity effect, i got that but now im trying to get it to look like it raped around a pipe so it looks like its coming from the pipe. any ideas on how to do this? using photoshop6

Make your electricity in waves: Like this: /\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Then put your pipe in a layer underneath the waves.

Then cut out every other wave where it lines up with the pipe so that the pipe shows through.

Then where it looks like the electricity will be in the front, just airbrush a lighter color on, and where the electricity looks like it should be behind the pipe, just airbrush on a darker color.

If you need clarification (you shouldn't, pretty simple), just reply back. I can clear up what I'm talking about by making a few simple pictures if you wish.

Thanks i got it to work looks nice. just need to fix my lighting to look the way i want with just the right amount of glow

day hawk,
dude your signature pic is sick.

OK - I did this for you !

If you lke it I'll tell you how its done ....If you dont well i just go away and hang my head in a kind of dejected way!

ah why did you have to make that
i just closed photoshop
now u got me messing around trying to get that effect lol

Very cool mark,

I don't think anyone would complain if you just Had to post a rundown on how you did it....
As many newbies as we have jumping on here latley....I bet you would keep some of them up WAAAYYYY past thier bedtime playing with it ....

Me?
I don't sleep anyway. ;)

yes thanks to him i woke up late to go to work
not to mention the lil woman trying to pry me off the computer

Its been such a long time since I did this one I almost forgotten how I did it!

I just used the old lightning technique - you know with difference clouds. Then I think I used advanced blending to clip out the black in the layer. I took elements from this layer and transformed them. Masked off some of the bits of lightning - to fade them in slightly. looks like I created a slight glow arond the lighnning - and a yellow reflection on the pipe If I was to do it again think I'd try to make the bolts of light curve around the pipe more - that would look cooler.

Hm what font did u use to type the Dayhawk in ur sig? Please tell me.